RedHat MANPATH

[Max Drown (Infor)]

After installing Cloverleaf 5.6 on RedHat, when I do a “man grep” I get “No man entry for grep.”

I added “export MANPATH” to .profile.local.end, and now “man grep” works again.

Does something in the Cloverleaf installation overwrite the MANPATH variable or unset it somehow? Is adding the export line the correct way to fix this?

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

Ok, so it looks like “setsite” is somehow overwriting MANPATH or something …. . When I log into the RedHat box as hci, I can access the man pages no problem. After I do a setsite, I can no longer access the man pages.

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

I’m guessing it might be a shell problem? RedHat uses bash by default.

Code:

# $Id: setsite.ksh,v 1.5 2007/10/26 18:10:24 gyu Exp $
#
# setsite: ksh function to establish/modify HCI environment variables
#
# Copyright (c) 1994-1998, Healthdyne Information Enterprises, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
# Author: Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
#   Date: 09/23/94
#
# Usage:
#       setsite site
#       setsite -clear
#
# Notes:
#       Just evals the output of hcisetenv.
#

function setsite {
   eval `${CL_INSTALL_DIR}/integrator/sbin/hcisetenv -site ksh $*`
}

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

*bump*

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[David Barr]

I’m having this problem on Redhat/Cloverleaf 5.7 rev2.

[David Barr]

I think I’ve found a solution for this problem.  I added export MANPATH=”:$MANPATH” to my .profile.local.end.

Redhat likes having an empty entry in the MANPATH, and setsite strips out empty entries from the end of the MANPATH, so I put it at the beginning.

[Max Drown (Infor)]

Excellent find!!! Seems to be working for me, too.

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